There are not many blogs out there dedicated to cooking on a pellet smoker. I have been cooking, grilling & smoking over 35 yrs now. I recently bought a Traeger Lil Tex Elite pellet smoker & have cooked on it over six yrs. now. I would like to share recipes & info I have gained from cooking on it.
Update 2014: I have plenty of recipes here for the pellet smoker so I am now including other outdoor cooking and some of my indoor cooking too.

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Monday, November 24, 2014

My Good Quick Chili

Nov 23 2014

Over 35 plus years cooking I have fixed a lot of pots of
chili, using a lot of different recipes and eaten a lot of different chili. I
am from the North so my chili has to have beans in it. I prefer pinto beans
over the more popular kidney beans and to me canned are just as good as using
dried and less work. My favorite brand of beans are Bush’s.

For meat I have used ground chuck, ground round, a mix of
ground beef and sausage, sirloin and round steak and smoked pork. My favorite
is to use ground round 90-10 mix and leave the fat in for a better taste.

I have made my own
tomato and chili sauce for good chili but that is a lot of work preparing. This
recipe is easy to make up and to me about the best tasting chili I have made. I
call it quick but it still takes about 4 hours; one hour to cook the meat and
get it all together and 3 hours to simmer. I think any chili needs to simmer at
least 3 hours to meld all the flavors. I have to keep my chili on the mild side
for the wife otherwise I would have to eat the whole pot! I usually add some
hot sauce to mine at the table.

It was on the mild side today, shirt sleeve weather, not
really chili weather but it still tasted good. While my chili was simmering I
sat out enjoying the weather and some beer. I swept up some leaves from my
patio and picked up my dogs poo.

You will note I only used a half bottle of beer in my chili;
you always want to use half bottles in your recipes. ½, 1 ½ or 2 ½ so you
always have a half bottle left for the cook!

I served up the chili with some shredded cheddar and sour
cream for topping. My wife and I both like some buttered saltine crackers with
our chili. She goes a little light on the butter compared to me! I had some of
my Cajun crackers left to have with mine. It tasted great and my wife said some
of my best chili!

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I started cooking when our children were in highschool & my wife worked.I was layed off during the summer & just kinda took over the kitchen & my wife does most all the cleanup. We are both retired now. I am a recipe hound, love to try new things. I suppose my cooking methods have evolved from Mid West Ohio, Southern, Soul, Cajun, Creole, & German, all of which I love.